Ag econ was never a good choice.
Avoid Maryland AREC for PhD
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
They aren't bad placements if your whole purpose is to get out of a sh1thole country. That is reflected in their students.
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Brutal placements https://www.arec.umd.edu/graduate/prospective-students/recent-placements
These aren't bad placements but you can see a downward trend with a falling number of AP placements. To the other point re resources. It's really hard to find good resource people, there are also relatively few resource positions, so while a lot of aREC and ENV jobs are heading to the post-doc path, good resource people while they have that option should find it easier to place conditional on their being demand in a given year.
This. I came into an ag econ PhD right around the top of the academic hiring bubble in env/res around 2014-2016. Misread the market terribly, this new postdoc equilibrium is here to stay it seems. RUN away from this field unless you truly love it for the long haul.
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Ag Econ senior here. UMD is the most overrated Dept of the bunch. Faculty mostly past their prime, mostly awful people, and this attitude projected on a student cohort that either come out of the program a_h*les themselves and/or with PTSD. If you want street cred in Ag Econ, go to Berkeley or Davis, though any of the top 10 will get you an academic gig if you are American and want one.
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Ag Econ senior here. UMD is the most overrated Dept of the bunch. Faculty mostly past their prime, mostly awful people.
Past their prime (Lichtenberg, Chambers, Williams, Olson)
or never smart enough to have a prime (Hanson, Lynch, Leonard, Alberini) or untested (Preonas, Smith, Archsmit, Sharan).The rest are ok.
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